Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
NASI think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
More Nas Quotes
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.
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I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I just talk about what’s going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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